This book jumps around a lot and doesn't really have follow a coherent path. Paragraphs don't follow on from one paragraph to another, never mind chapters. The book is also rather limited in that it discusses modern people and neanderthals in rather vague terms. The book wasn't overly technical...
Stringer tells the story of research into human evolution as a scientific adventure, with competing theories, new dating techniques turning "firm" knowledge on it's head, and more. One of my favorite lines so far is in the second chapter, in a discussion of the impact of new techniques on two com...
The standard classification of humans had living people, the Neanderthals, and diverse remains from sites like Broken Hill in Africa and Solo in Java all classified as members of our species. With such different-looking fossil members within Homo sapiens, the origins of features like a chin, a sm...